Voting Record

From Dec 1831 to Mar 1869, Thomas missed 1,717 of 5,018 roll call votes, which is 34.2%. This is worse than the median of 26.5% among the lifetime records of representatives serving in Mar 1869.
The chart below reports missed votes over time.

Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000